Ezekiel 40; Ezekiel 41; Ezekiel 42 NCV

Ezekiel 40; Ezekiel 41; Ezekiel 42

1It was the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month. It was in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem was captured. On that same day I felt the power of the Lord, and he brought me to Jerusalem.2In the visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel and put me down on a very high mountain. On the south of the mountain there were some buildings that looked like a city.3He took me closer to the buildings, and I saw a man who looked as if he were made of bronze, standing in the gateway. He had a cord made of linen and a stick in his hand, both for measuring.4The man said to me, "Human, look with your eyes and hear with your ears. Pay attention to all that I will show you, because that's why you have been brought here. Tell the people of Israel all that you see."5I saw a wall that surrounded the Temple area. The measuring stick in the man's hand was ten and one-half feet long. So the man measured the wall, which was ten and one-half feet thick and ten and one-half feet high.6Then the man went to the east gateway. He went up its steps and measured the opening of the gateway. It was ten and one-half feet deep.7The rooms for the guards were ten and one-half feet long and ten and one-half feet wide. The walls that came out between the guards' rooms were about nine feet thick. The opening of the gateway next to the porch that faced the Temple was ten and one-half feet deep.8Then the man measured the porch of the gateway.9It was about fourteen feet deep, and its side walls were three and one-half feet thick. The porch of the gateway faced the Temple.10On each side of the east gateway were three rooms, which measured the same on each side. The walls between each room were the same thickness.11The man measured the width of the entrance to the gateway, which was seventeen and one-half feet wide. The width of the gate was about twenty-three feet.12And there was a low wall about twenty-one inches high in front of each room. The rooms were ten and one-half feet on each side.13The man measured the gateway from the roof of one room to the roof of the opposite room. It was about forty-four feet from one door to the opposite door.14The man also measured the porch, which was about thirty-five feet wide. The courtyard was around the porch.15From the front of the outer side of the gateway to the front of the porch of the inner side of the gateway was eighty-seven and one-half feet.16The rooms and porch had small windows on both sides. The windows were narrower on the side facing the gateway. Carvings of palm trees were on each side wall of the rooms.17Then the man brought me into the outer courtyard where I saw rooms and a pavement of stones all around the court. Thirty rooms were along the edge of the paved walkway.18The pavement ran alongside the gates and was as deep as the gates were wide. This was the lower pavement.19Then the man measured from the outer wall to the inner wall. The outer court between these two walls was one hundred seventy-five feet on the east and on the north.20The man measured the length and width of the north gateway leading to the outer courtyard.21Its three rooms on each side, its inner walls, and its porch measured the same as the first gateway. It was eighty-seven and one-half feet long and forty-four feet wide.22Its windows, porch, and carvings of palm trees measured the same as the east gateway. Seven steps went up to the gateway, and the gateway's porch was at the inner end.23The inner courtyard had a gateway across from the northern gateway like the one on the east. The man measured it and found it was one hundred seventy-five feet from inner gateway to outer gateway.24Then the man led me south where I saw a gateway facing south. He measured its inner walls and its porch, and they measured the same as the other gateways.25The gateway and its porch had windows all around like the other gateways. It was eighty-seven and one-half feet long and forty-four feet wide.26Seven steps went up to this gateway. Its porch was at the inner end, and it had carvings of palm trees on its inner walls.27The inner courtyard had a gateway on its south side. The man measured from gate to gate on the south side, which was one hundred seventy-five feet.28Then the man brought me through the south gateway into the inner courtyard. The inner south gateway measured the same as the gateways in the outer wall.29The inner south gateway's rooms, inner walls, and porch measured the same as the gateways in the outer wall. There were windows all around the gateway and its porch. The gateway was eighty-seven and one-half feet long and forty-four feet wide.30Each porch of each inner gateway was about forty-four feet long and about nine feet wide.31The inner south gateway's porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its side walls, and its stairway had eight steps.32The man brought me into the inner courtyard on the east side. He measured the inner east gateway, and it was the same as the other gateways.33The inner east gateway's rooms, inside walls, and porch measured the same as the other gateways. Windows were all around the gateway and its porch. The inner east gateway was eighty-seven and one-half feet long and forty-four feet wide.34Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its inner walls on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.35Then the man brought me to the inner north gateway. He measured it, and it was the same as the other gateways.36Its rooms, inner walls, and porch measured the same as the other gateways. There were windows all around the gateway, which was eighty-seven and one-half feet long and forty-four feet wide.37Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its inner walls on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.38There was a room with a door that opened onto the porch of the inner north gateway. In this room the priests washed animals for the burnt offerings.39There were two tables on each side of the porch, on which animals for burnt offerings, sin offerings, and penalty offerings were killed.40Outside, by each side wall of the porch, at the entrance to the north gateway, were two more tables.41So there were four tables inside the gateway, and four tables outside. In all there were eight tables on which the priests killed animals for sacrifices.42There were four tables made of cut stone for the burnt offering. These tables were about three feet long, three feet wide, and about two feet high. On these tables the priests put their tools which they used to kill animals for burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.43Double shelves three inches wide were put up on all the walls. The flesh for the offering was put on the tables.44There were two rooms in the inner courtyard. One was beside the north gateway and faced south. The other room was beside the south gateway and faced north.45The man said to me, "The room which faces south is for the priests who serve in the Temple area,46while the room that faces north is for the priests who serve at the altar. This second group of priests are descendants of Zadok, the only descendants of Levi who can come near the Lord to serve him."47The man measured the inner courtyard. It was a square -- one hundred seventy-five feet long and one hundred seventy-five feet wide. The altar was in front of the Temple.48The man brought me to the porch of the Temple and measured each side wall of the porch. Each was about nine feet thick. The doorway was twenty-four and one-half feet wide. The side walls of the doorway were each about five feet wide.49The porch was thirty-five feet long and twenty-one feet wide, with ten steps leading up to it. Pillars were by the side walls, one on each side of the entrance.

1The man brought me to the Holy Place and measured its side walls, which were each ten and one-half feet thick.2The entrance was seventeen and one-half feet wide. The walls alongside the entrance were each about nine feet wide. The man measured the Holy Place, which was seventy feet long and thirty-five feet wide.3Then the man went inside and measured the side walls of the next doorway. Each was three and one-half feet thick. The doorway was ten and one-half feet wide, and the walls next to it were each more than twelve feet thick.4Then the man measured the room at the end of the Holy Place. It was thirty-five feet long and thirty-five feet wide. The man said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place."5Then the man measured the wall of the Temple, which was ten and one-half feet thick. There were side rooms seven feet wide all around the Temple.6The side rooms were on three different stories, each above the other, with thirty rooms on each story. All around the Temple walls there were ledges for the side rooms. The upper rooms rested on the ledges but were not attached to the Temple walls.7The side rooms around the Temple were wider on each higher story, so rooms were wider on the top story. A stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest through the middle story.8I also saw that the Temple had a raised base all around. Its edge was the foundation for the side rooms, and it was ten and one-half feet thick.9The outer wall of the side rooms was about nine feet thick. There was an open area between the side rooms of the Temple10and some other rooms. It was thirty-five feet wide and went all around the Temple.11The side rooms had doors which led to the open area around the outside of the Temple. One door faced north, and the other faced south. The open area was about nine feet wide all around.12The building facing the private area at the west side was one hundred twenty-two and one-half feet wide. The wall around the building was about nine feet thick and one hundred fifty-seven and one-half feet long.13Then the man measured the Temple. It was one hundred seventy-five feet long. The private area, including the building and its walls, was in all one hundred seventy-five feet long.14Also the front of the Temple and the private area on its east side were one hundred seventy-five feet wide.15The man measured the length of the building facing the private area on the west side, and it was one hundred seventy-five feet from one wall to the other. The Holy Place, the Most Holy Place, and the outer porch16had wood panels on the walls. By the doorway, the Temple had wood panels on the walls. The wood covered all the walls from the floor up to the windows,17up to the part of the wall above the entrance. All the walls inside the Most Holy Place and the Holy Place, and on the outside, in the porch,18had carvings of creatures with wings and palm trees. A palm tree was between each carved creature, and every creature had two faces.19One was a human face looking toward the palm tree on one side. The other was a lion's face looking toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all around the Temple walls.20From the floor to above the entrance, palm trees and creatures with wings were carved. The walls of the Holy Place21had square doorposts. In front of the Most Holy Place was something that looked like22an altar of wood. It was more than five feet high and three feet wide. Its corners, base, and sides were wood. The man said to me, "This is the table that is in the presence of the Lord."23Both the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place had double doors.24Each of the doors had two pieces that would swing open.25Carved on the doors of the Holy Place were palm trees and creatures with wings, like those carved on the walls. And there was a wood roof over the front Temple porch.26There were windows and palm trees on both side walls of the porch. The side rooms of the Temple were also covered by a roof over the stairway.

1Then the man led me north out into the outer courtyard and to the rooms across from the private area and the building.2These rooms on the north side were one hundred seventy-five feet long and eighty-seven and one-half feet wide.3There was thirty-five feet of the inner courtyard between them and the Temple. On the other side, they faced the stone pavement of the outer courtyard. The rooms were built in three stories like steps and had balconies.4There was a path on the north side of the rooms, which was seventeen and one-half feet wide and one hundred seventy-five feet long. Doors led into the rooms from this path.5The top rooms were narrower, because the balconies took more space from them. The rooms on the first and second stories of the building were wider.6The rooms were on three stories. They did not have pillars like the pillars of the courtyards. So the top rooms were farther back than those on the first and second stories.7There was a wall outside parallel to the rooms and to the outer courtyard. It ran in front of the rooms for eighty-seven and one-half feet.8The row of rooms along the outer courtyard was eighty-seven and one-half feet long, and the rooms that faced the Temple were about one hundred seventy-five feet long.9The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side so a person could enter them from the outer courtyard,10at the start of the wall beside the courtyard. There were rooms on the south side, which were across from the private area and the building.11These rooms had a path in front of them. They were like the rooms on the north with the same length and width and the same doors.12The doors of the south rooms were like the doors of the north rooms. There was an entrance at the open end of a path beside the wall, so a person could enter at the east end.13The man said to me, "The north and south rooms across from the private area are holy rooms. There the priests who go near the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings: the grain offerings, sin offerings, and the penalty offerings, because the place is holy.14The priests who enter the Holy Place must leave their serving clothes there before they go into the outer courtyard, because these clothes are holy. After they put on other clothes, they may go to the part of the Temple area which is for the people."15When the man finished measuring inside the Temple area, he brought me out through the east gateway. He measured the area all around.16The man measured the east side with the measuring stick; it was eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.17He measured the north side; it was eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.18He measured the south side; it was eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.19He went around to the west side; it measured eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.20So he measured the Temple area on all four sides. The Temple area had a wall all around it that was eight hundred seventy-five feet long and eight hundred seventy-five feet wide. It separated what was holy from that which was not holy.